单词 | pride-gavel |
释义 | † pride-gaveln. Obsolete. Probably: a local tax or rent paid for the right to fish for freshwater lamprey on the River Severn. ΚΠ 1663 S. Taylor Hist. Gavel-kind ix. 112 A Pride-gavel; which in the Lordship of Rodely in the County of Gloucester is used and paid..as a Rent to the Lord of the Mannour, by certain Tenants..for their Liberty and Privilege of Fishing in the River Severn for Lamprayes. 1679 T. Blount Fragmenta Antiquitatis 18 Certain Tenants of the Mannor of Rodeley in Com. Glocester do pay to this day, to the Lord thereof, a Rent called Pridgavel, in duty and acknowledgment to him for their Liberty and Priviledge of fishing for Lampreys in the River Severn. 1735 Compleat Eng. Copyholder 488 Certain Tenants of this Lordship, pay to the Lord of the Manor a Rent called Pride-Gavel, as a Duty and Acknowledgment to him for their Liberty and Privilege of Fishing in the River Severn for Lampreyes. 1779 S. Rudder New Hist. Gloucestershire 551 Acknowledgments are paid..for fishing in the river Severn, some of which were antiently called Prid-gavel, from the word Gavel a rent, and Pride, the name of a kind of wicker'd putt, or pouchin, which is laid in the water to catch the fish.] This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1663 |
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